Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 475 549
Rank change year-on-year -80 +74 +76
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 47 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.024% 0.011%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.71% 0.13% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 4 3
10th Percentile £408 £375 £540
25th Percentile £456 £471 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £688 £606 £725
90th Percentile £738 £618 -
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -2.17% -17.86% +21.74%

All Database & BI Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,614 4,664 6,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.26% 18.67% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,477 3,239 4,663
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 86 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -14.53% -29.76%
75th Percentile £71.50 £64.31 £52.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.10 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.76%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -45 29 £525 -4.55% 18
North of England - 7 £550 - 8
North West - 6 £425 - 5
South West - 5 £725 -
South East -60 3 £600 +30.43% 7
Midlands -51 1 - - 3
West Midlands -57 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £675 - 3
East of England - 1 £500 -
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) Appian
1 1 (2.13%) Palantir Foundry
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP ERP
1 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (2.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) Power Platform
2 14 (29.79%) Azure
3 9 (19.15%) dbt
3 9 (19.15%) Snowflake
4 7 (14.89%) SaaS
5 5 (10.64%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) AWS
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon Neptune
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.26%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.13%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.13%) Fivetran
9 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (59.57%) Power BI
2 11 (23.40%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (23.40%) Looker
3 10 (21.28%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (21.28%) Star Schema
4 8 (17.02%) Metadata
5 7 (14.89%) BigQuery
5 7 (14.89%) Delta Lake
6 6 (12.77%) Power Query
7 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (10.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (8.51%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (6.38%) Data Vault
9 3 (6.38%) QlikView
9 3 (6.38%) Stardog
9 3 (6.38%) Tableau
10 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.26%) Data Mart
10 2 (4.26%) Neo4j
10 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) ER Studio
3 2 (4.26%) ERwin
4 1 (2.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 21 (44.68%) Finance
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Retail
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Marketing
5 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Local Government
7 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Architect
2 10 (21.28%) Data Architect
3 9 (19.15%) Data Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Senior
5 6 (12.77%) Data Modeller
6 3 (6.38%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Data Integration Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Finance Modeller
7 2 (4.26%) Integration Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Product Manager
7 2 (4.26%) SAP Architect
7 2 (4.26%) SAP Data Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) PySpark
2 2 (4.26%) JSON
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Jena
3 1 (2.13%) FHIR
3 1 (2.13%) JSON-LD
3 1 (2.13%) Kafka
3 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.13%) SWRL
3 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (17.02%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.38%) Taxonomies
4 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) IoT
5 1 (2.13%) Linked Data
5 1 (2.13%) NHS
5 1 (2.13%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) Analytics
1 38 (80.85%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (78.72%) Data Modelling
3 17 (36.17%) AI
4 16 (34.04%) Data Engineering
5 14 (29.79%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (29.79%) Migration
6 12 (25.53%) Data Governance
7 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
8 9 (19.15%) Data Architecture
8 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (19.15%) Use Case
9 8 (17.02%) Dimensional Modelling
9 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
9 8 (17.02%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (14.89%) Data Transformation
10 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
10 7 (14.89%) Validation
10 7 (14.89%) Workflow
11 6 (12.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) SQL
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (8.51%) LookML
5 2 (4.26%) SHACL
5 2 (4.26%) SPARQL
6 1 (2.13%) Cypher
6 1 (2.13%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
1 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (40.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) Solvency II
4 1 (2.13%) HL7
4 1 (2.13%) SLA
4 1 (2.13%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Grafana
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.28%) Databricks
3 4 (8.51%) SAP
4 3 (6.38%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) Ariba
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle
6 1 (2.13%) Foundry
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (2.13%) Palantir
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Sparx